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高级英语二
I. Vocabulary:
1. This very night I will dismiss such trivial phantasies as jumping sheep ａnd
crooked pictures, ａnd evoke the phantom of a crushing, stupendous Bore.
A. lose sight of
B. give up
C. play with
D. make up for
2. In the story, there is an impossible character, a victim of insomnia, who finds
that a volume of Wordsworth’s poems is the only sure ________.
A. incredulous
B. soporific
C. solitary
D. indispensable
3. There is much work which is exceedingly irksome.
A. pleasant
B. satisfactory
C. annoying
D. dissatisfactory
4. The Army would rescind the magazine’s accreditation to cover the war.
A. give honor to
B. pay attention to
C. pay respect to
D. put an end to
5. The modern cult of beauty is not exclusively a function of wealth.
A. attraction
B. praise
C. worship
D. form
6. It was in the ________ light of the early dawn that I saw a man moving towards
me.
A. dark
B. dim
C. damp
D. dizzy
7. He ________ for a whole week before making that important decision.
A. thought of
B. depended on
C. meditated
D. wondered
8. Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredom as the price of their freedom
ｆrom drudgery.
A. great pleasure
B. serious mistake
C. hard ａnd dull work
D. important duty
9. To counter their efforts, treasure hunters argue that without the lure of gold
ａnd million-dollar treasures, the wrecks ａnd their historical artifacts would never be recovered at all.
A. knowledge
B. attraction
C. luxury
D. glare
10. The cult of beauty must therefore be symptomatic of changes that have taken place
outside the economic sphere.
A. superior to
B. the signs of
C. bringing about
D. sympathized by
11. In short, a lot of television usurps one of the most precious of all human gifts,
the ability to ________ your attention yourself, rather than just passively surrender it.
A. seize
B. ｕｓｅ
C. apply
D. focus
12. After twenty years of antagonism, the two countries were finally ______.
A. friendly
B. agreeable
C. peaceful
D. reconciled
13. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to ________ his vigor, he is
likely to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
A. gain
B. impair
C. recover
D. loosen
14. There’s no longer any moral indignation. ａnd if there is, it comes ｆrom people
who are almost exhausted ｆrom past indignities inflicted on them.
A. agreement
B. approval
C. anger
D. standard
15. Driving after drinking Whiskey is ________ to cause traffic accidents.
A. about
B. tempted
C. apt
D. assured
16. The incredible precision of the equipment is ________ to the mechanical skill
of the engineers who built it.
A. stamina
B. ambivalent
C. variable
D. testimony
17. People should ________ their minds of too strong a desire for money.
A. clean
B. purge
C. spill
D. fill
18. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely
to find far more zest in his free time than an idle man could possibly find.
A. dream
B. imagination
C. excitement
D. boredom
19. What America ａnd NATO did in Yugoslavia ________ to mass murder.
A. is compatible
B. is tantamount
C. appeals
D. is conducive
20. I don’t think we can ________ the possibility that he may have been murdered.
A. include
B. extend
C. exclude
D. exceed
II. Text Comprehension:
1. In J. B. Priestley’s essay, insomnia (sleeplessness) (“On Getting Off to Sleep”)
A. is incurable for all people.
B. is a praiseworthy agony inherent in an active ａnd intellectual mind.
C. is not a problem in this world.
D. can be overcome if one has a strong will.
2. “The artificial ways of inducing sleep are legion, ...” (“On Getting Off to Sleep”)
This means that
A. nothing can help people get off to sleep.
B. the methods that people ｕｓｅ to try to get to sleep are endless.
C. people try very hard to get to sleep.
D. it’s a hard job for people to get to sleep.
3. In the sentence “when it is time to close the five ports of knowledge, most
folks I know seem to find no difficulty in plunging their earthly parts into
